Xaoc Skopje Explained — A Dual Quantizer with 10,000 Scales

video upload by SynthDad

"On the surface Skopje looks like a simple dual quantiser. Two knobs, two channels, two outputs. But the real power isn't on the front panel — it's on the SD card, where you can define your own scales, chord progressions and microtonal tunings as text files. 100 banks of 100 scales each. That's 10,000 possible scales, and you can build them yourself!

I've covered a lot of quantisers on my channel over the years; Quantermain, various Phazerville apps, and Skopje takes a genuinely different approach. Less going on at the interface, much more depth under the hood.

If you make any kind of microtonal music, or you want a quantizer that gives you real creative control over your scales, this one's worth a look.

In this video I start with the basics of how the quantiser works, then get into the more interesting stuff: using both channels together, playing chord progressions through the built-in Circle of Fifths bank, building your own custom scales in text files, the wrap and clip range limiter modes, and using EDO and Scala format microtonal scales.

If you're curious about microtonal scales check out this laboratory https://mk.bcgsc.ca/music-scale-playe..."